If it were not so, I would have told you.—John xiv. 2.
Do you take in the thoughtful tenderness of Jesus' words? A mother, stilling her frightened child in the dark, might speak just so. That brooding love makes room for all that we can want. He has sounded every deep of a troubled and tempted life. Who so sure as he to understand how to prepare a place where troubled and tempted lives may grow serene?